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When your trailer isn’t balanced, you feel it—poor steering, bouncing, and sway that makes every mile stressful. The Weigh Safe True Tow makes dialing in your tongue weight simple with its built-in scale and free app. Just hook up your trailer, check the scale, and enter your setup details in the app to get your exact distributed tongue weight. Then adjust the lead screw on the hitch head until the scale matches the number. You’ll hit that 10–15% sweet spot of your gross towing weight every time and roll out knowing your load is balanced.
Nothing ruins a tow faster than fighting sway when a semi blasts past or a crosswind hits. The True Tow’s integrated tension and friction points steady your trailer automatically, keeping it even and stable. Its trunnion bar design transfers weight across the trailer and tow vehicle for smoother handling and better braking control. You’ll feel the difference in every turn and long stretch of highway—steady, calm, and predictable towing without needing to disconnect or disable anything when backing up.
If you’re hauling heavy, you need hardware that can take it. This hitch is made from high-strength steel and is V5 and J684 certified for safety. It handles up to 18,500 lbs gross towing weight and 1,850 lbs tongue weight. The 2-5/16" stainless steel hitch ball resists rust and holds up over time, and the shank fits any 2" x 2" receiver rated for use with weight distribution systems. You can count on it for serious towing strength trip after trip.
The system adjusts in 1-1/4" height increments with up to 6" of drop or 7-1/2" of rise, so you can match the hitch ball to your trailer coupler and get your setup level. The sway control brackets mount 27"–32" back from the coupler and fit trailer frames up to 6" tall. When backing, keep the system's turning limits in mind and remove the spring arms for sharp turns, steep driveways, or other significant grade changes. A locking hitch pin is included to help secure the shank when you're parked.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello, everybody, Steve here with etrailer.com. Today, we're looking together at our Weigh Safe True Tow Weight Distribution Hitch with a two-inch shank and a six-inch drop, or a 7 1/2 inch rise. Now, folks, this is ready at 18,500 pounds capacity. Now, with the Weigh Safe, you're gonna get a smooth, even and safe ride while towing, and it's gonna make balancing your load super easy with its built-in scale, so you don't have to worry about poor handling. It'll also correct sway from happening, so those passing semis, hard crosswinds, those kinda things. It's gonna use built-in tension on the head and the bars down here at the lift or sway control brackets and those friction points.
Now, again, with Weigh Safe, you get the built-in scale. I'll zoom in here so you can see it better, and you're gonna be able to download their app. There's a QR code here on top. You are also gonna get the instructions. So, with that downloadable app, they're gonna be able to let you input your information for your trailer, the weight, length, and those kinda things potentially, and you're gonna be able to get the perfect distributed tongue weight for your setup.
Now, they're gonna give you a range of a sweet spot, let's say, and you'll want to increase or decrease the tongue weight and the loading your trailer to reach that optimal weight. Now, you're also gonna have this bolt up here. The lift bar here is gonna have a built-in wrench, and you'll simply go in or out, left or right, however you wanna word it, and that's gonna adjust the angle on the head here and help adjust that tongue weight as well. Now, all this will give you a peace of mind when you're loading, unloading and using this, because you're gonna have that safe range to work with. Now, the ball here is a stainless steel ball.
It is a 2 5/16 inch size, rated again, at 18,500 pounds gross towing weight. The tongue weight is 1,850 pounds. Now, zooming back out, you've got the two-inch shank here. Again, the rise on here is a six-inch drop, but a 7 1/2 inch rise, and the lock here is stainless steel, it's included. It's a nice round lock with a round, tubular key to be used with it.
You get two keys. Very nice design. I personally like the tubular keys versus the flat keys. Easier to use, a lot better as far as theft deterrent as well. Now, everything here is a nice hardened steel. It's been V5 and J684-certified for safety, and it's all black powder coat on the finish here to give you a nice, elegant look, but also keep it clean and free of rust and corrosion and those kinda things. Now, going over here to the lift brackets, folks, you're gonna have to measure when you set this up per the instructions. The center of your coupler or the center of the ball to the center of these brackets needs to be between 27 and 32 inches back from the center down the side of your frame. It's got a max trailer height on the frame of six inches tall. That's what one of those brackets looks like installed, and if you need higher than six inches, they offer an eight-inch bracket kit sold separately. You're also gonna get the lift bar as you already saw before. Now, obviously, whenever you're using this, everything's gonna be under spring tension, so follow the instructions to be able to safely put this underneath, pop it on the frame and lift it up into place, and then you'll secure it with these L-pins here, and yes, there's supposed to be that much play of movement. Remember, these are gonna slide when you're making turns, they're gonna slide on these brackets, creating that friction that you need, and also these bars here can pivot in or out. Again, I've got it set here on the table just for demonstration purposes, so I'm not gonna open and close them, but they can open and close as needed to fit the different trailer frames that are out there as well. Well, folks, that's gonna wrap it up. Just a quick look together at the Weigh Safe True Tow Weight Distribution Setup. I'm Steven, thanks so much for watching. As always, stay safe while you're towing.
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Ratings & Reviews
James D.
5/27/2026
Hey George, we definitely understand the frustration with the app compatibility and difficulty reaching support for assistance. The good news is the hitch does not rely on the app to function. The gauge and weight distribution system are mechanical, so you can still set it up correctly without the app. The method to set it up the traditional way: Measure the front wheel well height before hooking up Hook up the trailer Tighten the WDH until the front suspension returns close to unloaded height That restores proper front axle weight and gets the hitch adjusted correctly regardless of what the app says. Let me know if this helps.
Gwendolyn Y.
4/23/2025
Your set up looks great, Justin! I'm happy to hear that Tiffani was there to help you out with everything that you needed. Have you taken your camper to any fun destinations yet with the Weigh Safe system on it now?
Kate F.
4/15/2026
I’m a bit surprised to hear that, Caleb. I’ve personally installed quite a few of these, and I’ve been impressed with how well the Weigh Safe system performs. This makes me think there may be something else going on. Do you know your trailer’s total loaded weight and your loaded tongue weight? Ideally, tongue weight should be around 10–15% of the total trailer weight. If the trailer isn’t loaded correctly, even the best weight distribution hitch won’t be able to fully control sway.
Brooke M.
2/15/2025
Well Im glad to hear that its a so far so good situation. :) If youd like to add photos to your review once you have it installed, wed love to see them! Thanks, Tom.
Tom O.
2/13/2026
I’ve now towed twice across the United Statesin all kinds of wind and weather. I like that I can measure and keep an eye on the rouge weight. We haul a 33’ ORV Blackstone which has a GVWR of 11,000 and we average around 9,840, with a tongue weight of 1500 due to the trailers wheel base design is long being a rear kitchen unit. On my F250 I can have a GCWR of 21,800 and Max Payload of 3,233. The truck handles the trailer quite well. That said the hitch also works well 90 of the time. No problem with hills and backing, or passing Semis. I due wish there was a bit more control in heavy side winds I experience traveling primarily north and south in the fall. We travel from Western NY in September to Michigan, then south to the Carolinas, and across country to Yuma Arizona over a couple months, then North into Montana and then again back to NY. The hitch is a beast and its heaver capacity over my old hitch is a definite improvement. I do recommend the hitch but be totally aware of your vehicles tow capacity and limitations.
Tim
2/10/2026
I like this hitch but it is very heavy, the head weights 70 pounds by itself so if you have a bad weak back, this probably isnt the hitch for you. I do recommend getting a hitch connecting tool, it attaches to the ball and assists ing into the truck receiver.
Ryan
4/14/2026
Weve towed several times now with no issues. App is easy to use to calculate pre-load settings.
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9/23/2025
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